Mr Trump and his wife arrived at the resort last night as part of what has been described as a two-day "private visit" to Scotland, with the President this afternoon playing gold on the Ailsa course at Turnberry, flanked by a large entourage. [Full Article...]

Ali Akbar Velayati , while visiting Moscow on July 13, also rejected US and Israeli demands that Iran's military get out of Syria, saying that will happen only if the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad asks Iran to go. "We will deal with the American presence from Syria to Iraq , Lebanon, Yemen and north Africa". Velayati met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the Syri... [Full Article...]

A day after another conflict between Donald Trump and CNN's Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta , the network's " State of the Union " host Jake Tapper announced that the White House has cancelled his interview with National Security Adviser John Bolton . [Full Article...]

She said it took two hours before officers arrested Trybus for disorderly conduct. The Forest Preserves of Cook County said in a statement late Wednesday that the officer, later identified as Patrick Connor , "no longer serves in the police department", adding that he had resigned earlier that day. [Full Article...]

Strzok and Page were involved in a romantic relationship in 2016, when they were both involved in the investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email server. Page "has no excuse" for her failure to appear, saying she has known for months the two committees were interested in her testimony. "A subpoena to testify before Congress is not optional, it's mandatory", Ryan said. [Full Article...]

Twelve indictments were filed by the office of USA special counsel Robert Mueller , who was brought on previous year to investigate Russian interference with the 2016 U.S. CNN's Russia investigation reporter Marshall Cohen said, by CNN's count, that Mueller has filed "191 criminal charges against 35 defendants", including "112 new charges brought today against a dozen Russian operatives for ... [Full Article...]

The U.S. Embassy in Seoul said it had no immediate information. Doubts over the prospect of a breakthrough were further exacerbated following the secretary of state Mike Pompeo's overnight visit to Pyongyang last week, during which a promised meeting with Kim failed to materialize. [Full Article...]

The cases are U.S. v. Manafort, 17-cr-201, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia ( Washington ), and 18-cr-83, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria). The judge in that case, Amy Berman Jackson, ordered Manafort to be jailed last month after he was accused of attempting to convince potential witnesses to lie on the stand. [Full Article...]

After Stormy's performance, she and the other 2 were arrested at the same time. Later that day, he said the charges had been dropped , and thanked prosecutors. When they subsequently approached her, she allegedly did the same to two of the detectives, while reportedly touching the third officer as detailed above. [Full Article...]

A giant inflatable "Trump baby" will be taken to Scotland to coincide with the United States president's visit over the weekend. On the planned protests, the ambassador said that Trump appreciated free speech and dismissed as "irrelevant" a giant balloon of Trump depicted as a crying baby in nappies which will fly next to the British parliament on Friday. [Full Article...]

From North Korea, Pompeo traveled to Tokyo to meet with South Korean and Japanese officials. Questions about the process began growing over the weekend, when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to North Korea ended. Russian Federation has invited South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend the economic forum as well, ... [Full Article...]

The boy was secured in a booster seat, and father and son were driven away. Sabraw previously ordered that thousands more children aged five and older should be back together with their parents by July 26, but Monday's hearing did not touch on their cases. [Full Article...]

In an interview last week with Stephanopoulos, Cohen acknowledged that he soon could face criminal charges in an ongoing Federal Bureau of Investigation probe of his finances and business dealings. "Mueller hired originally as his chief investigator a man that has some kind of vicious bias against Donald Trump ", Giuliani said, referring to Strzok. [Full Article...]

The couple will then stay at Winfield House, the U.S. ambassador's residence on the edge of Regent's Park in London. London Mayor Sadiq Khan, a Muslim who has been involved in social media exchanges with the USA president, said Trump was not welcome in the British capital because of his divisive agenda and would face mass peaceful protests. [Full Article...]

In the run-up to his trip, the president did little to ease European concerns by delivering fresh broadsides against NATO, an intergovernmental military alliance of 29 North American and European countries aimed at countering possible Russian aggression. [Full Article...]

But he tweeted , "Hope Not!" Speaking at a news conference in Tokyo with his Japanese and South Korean Pompeo responded directly to North Korea's Foreign Ministry's comment, after his two-day trip to Pyongyang, that the USA employed a "unilateral and gangster-like demand for denuclearization ". [Full Article...]

In Southern California , a fire in Santa Barbara burned 20 structures in Goleta, and a San Diego County fire burned at least five homes in Alpine. Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for the county. Rain helped calm a fire in the heart of ski country that has destroyed three houses, including the home of a volunteer firefighter battling the flames near the resort town of Aspen. [Full Article...]

McConnell was originally hopeful that Trump would select Amul Thapar , a federal appeals court judge who was previously on the bench in Kentucky, but has concluded that the president is unlikely to name him. The US President interviewed seven candidates from his master list of 25 judges, the White House said. This will be 6.30 am IST, 10 July. Trump has teased details of his process in recent... [Full Article...]

Actually, the 2018 Defense Authorization Act, which approved increased military spending to almost $700 billion this year, was approved last year with strong bipartisan votes: 89-8 in favor in the Senate, with Montana's Democratic Sen. A stunning new poll shows the hot-button immigration crisis along the US-Mexico border is taking the top-spot of issues most important to Americans heading into t... [Full Article...]